Classifying psychopathology : mental kinds and natural kinds / edited by Harold Kincaid and Jacqueline A. Sullivan.

Scholars question the extent to which current psychiatric classification systems are inadequate for diagnosis, treatment, and research of mental disorders and offer suggestions for improvement. In this volume, leading philosophers of psychiatry examine psychiatric classification systems, including t...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Kincaid, Harold, 1952- (Editor), Sullivan, Jacqueline A. (Editor)
Other title:汃獡楳祦湩⁧獐捹潨慰桴汯杯
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]
Series:Philosophical psychopathology.
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Table of Contents:
  • Classifying Psychopathology : Mental Kinds and Natural Kinds / Harold Kincaid and Jacqueline Sullivan
  • Natural Kinds in Psychiatry : Conceptually Implausible, Empirically Questionable, and Stigmatizing / Nick Haslam
  • Deeply Rooted Sources of Error and Bias in Psychiatric Classification / Jeffrey Poland
  • Psychopharmacology and Natural Kinds : A Conceptual Framework / Dan J. Stein
  • Beyond Natural Kinds : Toward a "Relevant" "Scientific" Taxonomy in Psychiatry / Peter Zachar
  • Natural Kinds in Folk Psychology and in Psychiatry / Dominic Murphy
  • Being a Mental Disorder / George Graham
  • Defensible Natural Kinds in the Study of Psychopathology / Harold Kincaid
  • Oppositional Defiant Disorder : Cultural Factors That Influence Interpretations of Defiant Behavior and Their Social and Scientific Consequences / Nancy Nyquist Potter
  • Syndrome Stabilization in Psychiatry : Pathological Gambling as a Case Study / Don Ross
  • The Social Functions of Natural Kinds : The Case of Major Depression / Allan Horwitz
  • The Missing Self in Hacking's Looping Effects / Şerife Tekin
  • Stabilizing Mental Disorders : Prospects and Problems / Jacqueline Sullivan.